Willo and the Dinosaur Heart

To the left, Dr. Dale A. Russell kneels next to one of the amazing additions to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.  To the right, is a color-enhance picture of the heart found in this Thescelosaur's chest.

This page is for a project that I am doing in Historical Geology.  I am researching the Heart found in Willo, the opposition to it and how the world found out about it.  My paper is downloadable and links will be provided to all sites with articles or pages on the subject material that I found.  Some sites require signing for a membership or following certain privacy and copyright rules.  I ask that all visitors take that into considerations when exploring the internet at all times please.  I would like to thank Dr. Russell for helping me find all these materials as well as for permission to paste pictures up here on my site.

Links to Researched Sites:

Dinosaurs Hearts and Denial -research paper by Rebecca Goehring

Willo, the Dinosaur with a Heart, the official website of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences

Science Magazine: "Cardiovascular Evidence for an Intermediate or Higher Metabolic Rate in an Ornithischian Dinosaur"

Science Magazine:  "Dinosaur with a Heart of Stone--Technical Comment"

Above:  Here is the actual picture for the heart inside it the ribcage.  At the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh,  North Carolina

NY Times:  " Scientists Say They Have Found the Heart of a Dinosaur"

NY Times:  "A Heart of Stone"

Below:  A diagram, with scale, of Willo's skelton.  The thescelosaur comes from the Greek words:  theskelos meaning marvelous, and  saurus meaning terrible lizard.

ABC News: "Warm Blooded?  Dinosaurs may be more like mammals"